sure
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, sure sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4rues, ruse
- One letter away
- 12cure, lure
What it means
- adjectivehaving or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
- adjectiveexercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance
- adjectivecertain to occur; destined or inevitable
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh uh1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
32 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allure
- assure
- boor
- brochure
- contour
- cure
- demure
- detour
- endure
- ensure
- immature
- impure
- insure
- lure
- manure
- mature
- miniature
- moor
- obscure
- premature
- procure
- pure
- reassure
- secure
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: rues, ruse, user, suer.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.